Love is not a justification for war. Anyone who uses it as such doesn't know squat about being human.

It's a discomfiting thing to have the person you love more than anything in the world toss a knife at your friend's head and walk away.

Let's run away.""To where?" "Alaska." "What's in Alaska?" "No clue, " I whispered. "Find out with me.

I could’ve sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didn’t miss you.

You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It’s finger-painted on the ceilings of caves and engraved into the walls of temples.

It was a kiss meant to set her ablaze. And as always, it worked.

Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says.

I think one of the great things that I have seen happen since the rise of the movement for black lives is the growth of more training and leadership spaces.

I only wear clothes because I can't walk around with nothing on, but they started calling me a fashionista.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

I'm not really interested in anyone's record or anyone - I'm always fighting with myself. I always try to do my best.

The hustlers on the corner were my role models.